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This is the second installment in a series of articles providing practical information about all things business.
Confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) are important when selling your business. A company’s most valuable assets are often its confidential information, intellectual property and trade secrets (for the purposes of this article, called “confidential information”).
NDAs are often produced at the beginning of negotiations when a purchaser is assessing your business. At that time, you must ensure that the NDA is specific enough to protect your confidential information. An NDA can be negotiated and amended before execution, and should be discussed and reviewed with your legal counsel.
You might think that your business doesn’t really have any valuable confidential information. But everyone has confidential information to protect, from manuals and programs to unique processes for managing services and marketing flows, and customer/client lists.
There are a number of ways to control the use of your confidential information:
Using these points, you might ask yourself, how can I control what a person does with my confidential information?
There are remedies that can be set out in an NDA, such as a right to an injunction or monetary consequences, to deter misuse. By being aware of the terms of your NDA and ensuring a well-crafted NDA is in place, you can focus on negotiating the sale of your business.
In our next article, we will discuss the management and organization of data in an electronic data room during a purchase and sale transaction.
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